Pytnchon mention

[rich]

funny, i remember this anecdote--can't remember where though. the
question is why was Pynchon's visit ended abruptly--because the
materials were sent to him?

rich

On 4/19/05, Hal Lewis <hl1313 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> An interesting note in this weeks  TLS ( Apr 15) about Thomas Pynchon.  In a
> review of the bio  of  
> Tom Maschler "Publisher" reviewed by  Richard Davenport Hines is the
> following graph:
>  
> 
> 
> "One high point in Maschler's account of his delightful unhealed meetings
> with Thomas Pynchon when the novelist was in London researching "Mason &
> Dixon. Pynchon's visit ended abruptly when Random House in New York sent him
> the proofs of Larry Kramer's novel "Faggots," soliciting a plaudit for the
> dust jacket, only for the parcel to be intercepted and seized by the
> Metropolitan Police, who decided that it was obscene." 
> 
> Maschler was chairman of Cape Jonathan Cape from 1970-1991
> 
> hal